Legislative obligations and safety requirements for petroleum and gas

This information details the legislative obligations, including safety requirements for the petroleum and gas industry in Queensland. For additional information, read the guidance information for operating plant and the technical guidelines for gas work.

Legislative obligations

Your prescribed obligations relating to safety and health in the petroleum and gas industry in Queensland are detailed in:

The Regulation prescribes safety requirements for different sectors of the industry. These include standards, codes and other requirements.

Some of the standards that are prescribed as safety requirements are listed as being either:

mandatory – you must comply with the document in order to comply with the safety requirement
preferred – you do not need to comply with the document, however, you must have written evidence that your alternative provides a level of risk that is equal or less than would be achieved by complying with the preferred standard.

If an alternative means of compliance is considered, you are required to give the Chief Inspector written notice of the following:

a statement about why conformity cannot occur
and
evidence demonstrating that the level of risk from the alternative solution is less than, or equal to, what will be that which would be achieved by complying with the preferred standard.

If the Section 15 notice template cannot be used for your notification purposes, contact gassafe@rshq.qld.gov.au directly for further information.